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“Then came the crisis of 1933.” This is Bonhoeffer’s own phrase in a letter that documents a turning point in his own life as well as that of the nation. Of Bonhoeffer’s own life at this time, his biographer writes, “The period of learning and roaming” from 1928 until 1931 “had come to an end” as the young lecturer, age 26, began to teach “on a faculty whose theology he did not share” and to...

smart and the stupid, the strong and the weak, the poor and the rich? It is truly amazing that as soon as we honestly pose this question and attempt to answer it, we are no longer able to provide even one. We want the one all right, and then again, for good reasons, we do not want it either. With a little honesty and some serious thought, it is simply not possible to come up with any kind of utopia for a kingdom of God on Earth. The possibility of thinking in universal terms, of seeing the big picture,
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